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EDITORS’ NOTES

Colombia's effortlessly suave ambassador for soulful reggaetón, J. Balvin, always keeps it smooth. He can flip thumping club anthems into steamy crossover hits ("Ginza"), and his bad-boy slow jams split the difference between the bump-and-grind seduction of R&B and the breezy sweetness of tropical pop ("Ahora"). He's also hooked up with a global lineup of collaborators in his quest to bring reggaetón to the masses. Beyoncé graced the waist-winding remix of his quirked-out smash “Mi Gente,” genre-hopping producer Diplo drafted Balvin into the roving Major Lazer party for a hypnotically catchy reboot of "Lean On," and he brought 21st-century swag to an old-school Latin standard alongside Cardi B on the Bronx firebrand's boogaloo-meets-trap tune “I Like It.”

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EDITORS’ NOTES

Colombia's effortlessly suave ambassador for soulful reggaetón, J. Balvin, always keeps it smooth. He can flip thumping club anthems into steamy crossover hits ("Ginza"), and his bad-boy slow jams split the difference between the bump-and-grind seduction of R&B and the breezy sweetness of tropical pop ("Ahora"). He's also hooked up with a global lineup of collaborators in his quest to bring reggaetón to the masses. Beyoncé graced the waist-winding remix of his quirked-out smash “Mi Gente,” genre-hopping producer Diplo drafted Balvin into the roving Major Lazer party for a hypnotically catchy reboot of "Lean On," and he brought 21st-century swag to an old-school Latin standard alongside Cardi B on the Bronx firebrand's boogaloo-meets-trap tune “I Like It.”